Civic Media Project

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#IdleNoMore encompasses new strategies allowed by technology and creative ways of thinking about open source organizing, but INM efforts continue from an earlier legacy of using music in international organizing for Indigenous rights. Efforts of the James Bay Cree to defeat a Hydro Quebec project included benefit concerts, such as Ban the Dam Jam. For more details on the long history of Indigenous resistance in North America, see Leanne Simpson, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Pub., 2011); Elizabeth J. Saccá, "Art, Native Voice, and Political Crisis," Visual Arts Research 29, no. 57 (2003): 80-88.